The Ministry was a membership-based event series that offered an informative and creative social environment for like-minded professionals to network and explore the enrichment of collecting and supporting the arts. The Ministry hosted 40 events between 2010 and 2012. It is currently on hiatus.

Exhibition: Brendan Monroe at COOPER COLE

American artist Brendan Monroe will be making his Canadian debut with an ambitious exhibition that consists of 50 paintings and sculptures. Monroe cultivates a taste for scientific challenges, relationships to math, the properties of physics, and the surreal. His dream-like scenes overflow with cellular shapes, creating a landscape set on a universal level. Möbius strips and algorithms integrate with human figures to create an environment that allows the mind to explore a journey of solitude. Monroe’s atmospheric imagery achieces a pause in both time and space; a monent that can be read as either the creation of new being or as the passing in to a serene immortality.

Brendan Monroe was born and rasied in Southern California and received a BFA honours from the Art Center College of Design. He has exhibited his art internationally at galleries such as Richard Heller in Los Angeles and Galerie LJ in Paris. His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and New American Paintings. Monroe currently lives and works in Oakland, California.

Observations of Light & Matter runs from March 3 – March 25, 2012. For more information about the opening on Friday night, check out the Facebook page for the event.